You will receive an email from us with a unique identifier, which will be in a line of the email: "Your unique ID for these methods is [uniqueID]."

Use an app like Notepad or TextEdit to create a file named godaddy.html.

Copy your unique ID, and only your unique ID, into the file. For example, if your unique ID was 12345, the content of your new .html file would be:

12345

Create a directory named "/.well-known/pki-validation/" in the highest-level directory of the website for the common name you're using. Usually, this is the website's root directory - for example, a directory named coolexample.com. For more info, see Find my website's root directory. Note: If you are running a Windows server, you will have to name the folder /.well-known./ instead of /.well-known/, or your server won't let you create the folder.

Place the new .html file in the pki-validation directory. For example, after you place the file at that location, the file's URL would be http://coolexample.com/.well-known/pki-validation/godaddy.html.

Verify that you can access godaddy.html in a web browser, and then use the instructions in the To Verify Your Domain Name Ownership section of this article.

If the SSL certificate is for the root domain, the HTML file must be findable at http://coolexample.com/.well-known/pki-validation/godaddy.html. http://www.coolexample.com/.well-known/pki-validation/godaddy.html will not work.

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You will receive an email from us with a TXT value you need to create in your domain name's DNS zone file. Adding this TXT record won't impact your website at all; it's something you can only view through a special tool which performs DNS lookups.

You can only create the TXT record through the company whose nameservers your domain name uses. If your domain name uses our nameservers, see Manage DNS zone files.

Use the following information to create your TXT record:

Field

What to enter

Name (Host)

Type @ (If your DNS is hosted outside of GoDaddy, you may need to leave this blank)

Value

Type the entire TXT value we sent you

Once you've created the DNS record, use the instructions in the To Verify Your Domain Name Ownership section of this article.

After uploading the HTML page or creating the TXT record, you need to let us know so we can verify your domain name ownership.

To Verify Your Domain Name Ownership

Log in to your GoDaddy account.

Click SSL Certificates.

Next to the certificate you want to use, click Manage.

Click Check my update.

It can take 5-10 minutes for your verification to complete.

Next steps

If your SSL is going onto the primary name of a site hosted with GoDaddy, we will automatically install the certificate for you.